Many working engineers prefer a scanned PDF of the second edition. Why?
Note on Ethics: While finding a "free PDF" of The Art of Analog Layout is common on engineering forums, consider purchasing a used hardcover for your desk and sourcing a digital copy you have scanned yourself for portable use.
The book is standard reading in many graduate-level analog design courses and is used daily by layout professionals. It complements texts like CMOS Circuit Design, Layout, and Simulation by Baker and Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits by Gray et al.
If you are carrying a portable version, you aren't reading it cover to cover—you are referencing it. Here are the four sections you will bookmark immediately.
To make two components match, you must move beyond placing them side-by-side. Use these techniques in order of effectiveness:
Most analog failures are not logical errors; they are physical ones. Hastings dedicates entire chapters to the "villains" of analog layout:
A portable version of this text means you can check a "matching rule" while standing at a microscope, verifying a layout in real-time.